Do you have a firearm?  ,
Poor idea, says Hollywood. Gun-possessed citizens are idiots. You are more likely to damage yourself than the villain.
” Leave it to a nice guy with a weapon to really screw things up”, says a officer on ABC’s” The Rookie”.
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Democratic officials agree.
” A great man with a firearm will stop bad men with a firearm,” he says. It does n’t hold up”, smiles New York Gov. Kathy Hochul.
” An youthful save fantasy”, adds an “expert” on CBS.
Today, I’m not a weapon people. I was raised among the leftist weapon enemies. I assumed Hollywood and “experts” were correct.  ,
When I saw analyst John Lott’s guide,” More Artillery, Less Crime”, I rolled my eyes. However, now that I am aware of Lott’s level, I can see why.  ,
” A few million times a month, people use guns defensively”, he says in my new film. ” When a human tries to stop one of these occasions, they’re largely successful”.
But FBI studies say self-defense with guns is unique.  ,
” They’re simply missing a huge number of cases”, says Lott. He’s posted a list of cases the FBI ignored, where residents stopped shooters.  ,
The Orlando Pulse bar capturing is on the FBI’s list. Forty-nine people were killed.  ,
” One week afterwards”, says Lott,” there was a similar attack at a nightclub in South Carolina” . ,
But it, a civil killed the intruder.
” Also had 125 rounds of ammunition on him when he was stopped”! says Lott.  ,
Apparently, the FBI missed that event, along with so many people.
When 17 people were killed at Parkland, Florida, that got plenty of media coverage.
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Some people know that” just a few months later in Titusville, Florida, (at ) an intermediate school”, says Lott,” a man came up, started firing his weapon. Fortunately, a hot dog vendor with a concealed weapon was able to scar the victim and stop him before he could kill.
” Stepped in and saved a lot of women’s life”, said a local police officer.
 , But the FBI apparently missed that, to…  ,
 , Lott’s record of ignored scenarios includes the history of Raul Mendez, who was at a celebration when a visitor opened fire.
Shot enters directly behind my ears, travels through my face, and extends to my left eye… I unloaded four rounds and finished him off after he was blinded from one gaze and covered in blood.
Mendez perhaps saved the lives of a few individuals at that group.
I say to him,” The FBI records such incidents, but somehow they do n’t have any information about your case.”
” They’re certainly recording the true quantities”, Mendez replies.  ,
I ask Lott why.  ,
” There’s a lot of political views that infect their data”, he says. I had conversations with members of the FBI. I had folks show me,’ Well, I’m a Democrat.'”  ,
I push up. ” The FBI, who carry weapons, are anti-gun? It’s not convincing”.
They said,” They think it would go against the tale that they want to push,” Lott responded.
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Stossel TV asked the FBI why they do n’t include self-defense cases like Mendez’. They responded that their information is not intended to cover all elements of active shooter situations.  ,  ,
To bad officials and the internet are unaware of this.
” It’d be wonderful if we could simply make all artillery disappear”, says Lott. ” But when you ban weapons, it’s generally the most law-abiding good people who obey. Every location in the world where all weapons and firearms are prohibited have seen death rates rise.
So-called experts like a psychiatrist featured on Detroit’s CBS station confidently say,” There have n’t  , been good guys with a gun who stop mass shootings. It’s the kind of thing you learn reading comic books” ! ,
Mendez replies:” I was prepared, and it saved lives. There’s no humorous book history about that. Those are specifics. That’s what happened. I was it. I’m convinced there’s some more out there that go unknown”.